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27 Sep 2017 8:10:46am

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While I am an admirer of your work Geraldine I do not think the interview with Magnus Linton was representative of your better efforts. Your were drawing on and dare I say re-enforcing Linton's views, but it seemed to me that you demonstrated little if any in depth knowledge of Colombia, certainly as it is in 2013. Indeed it seemed that you reduced a country of more than forty million people (the third largest in Latin America) to little more than a cliche. I lived in Colombia in 1994 and 1995 - Pablo Escobar, who got an airing on your program as if he died yesterday, was already dead. I served as Director of the UN Drug Control Program. It was a difficult time with both illicit drugs cartels and guerilla movements challenging a weak government. Since then periods of outstanding national leadership have seen dramatic progress on many fronts so that Colombia today is one of Latin America's success stories. My last visit was in January this year - I suggest you might consider a visit to broaden your knowledge of this dynamic country. I would like to written more but have used up my space. I certainly won't be rushing off to buy Magnus Linton's book.

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